How long do all Canadians spend playing video games in a month? (Yana and Julian) Math Skills:
Multiplication and division
Survey, social skills
Research skills
Estimation skills
Averaging, the concept of the average
Geography, knowledge of socio-economic state of Canada
Assumptions
What’s the total time (in days) your entire class has spent chewing gum over a lifetime? (Hailey and Michelle K) Math Skills:
Collecting and recording data
Taking mean value of data
Convert units of time
How many party sized pizzas would it take to cover the outside of the homes on your street? (Kathryn and Eddie) Math Skills:
Equations for areas of squares, rectangles, and triangles (measurement)
Surface area (measurement)
Tiling patterns (geometry and special sense)
Exponents, multiplication, addition (number and sense and numeration)
Classify polygons (geometry and spatial sense)
Solving geometry problems (geometry and spatial sense)
How many meters does a student travel within the school per year? (Brad and Kay) Math Skills
Decimals, fractions, multiplication, collection and recording data
How many skateboards do you need to cover a skyscraper? (Chris & Girthiga) Math Skills
Solving geometry problems (grade 8)
Surface area of a rectangular prism (grade 7)
Surface area of a cylinder (grade 8)
Surface area of a triangular prism (grade 8)
Decimals (grade 7)
How many kilometers does the entire student population of your school walk in one year during school hours? (Doina & Vick) Math Skills
Measurement skills
Distance scales
Estimation
Averaging
Polling (data management)
Calculation and logic (Number sense and numeration, critical thinking)
Problem solving
How many trees need to be cut down to provide paper for an entire school year? (Christe & Nathan) Math Skills
Estimation
Organizational skills for multi-step questions
Basic Math skills (i.e. arithmetic, conversion, multiplication)
How many cell phones would you need to put end to end to make a ‘ring’ around the world? Are there enough cell phones in the world to accomplish this task?(Mala Singh and Lisa Kosh) Math Skills
Number sense and numeration: Scientific notation, BEDMAS
Measurement: Circle and Circumference
Geometry and spatial sense: cell phone size in relation to the world
How many balloons would it take to fill a swimming pool? (Greg Leverton and Liz Wunderlich) Math Skills
They need to know how to calculate volumes and areas
They need to understand shapes, and how spheres stack, and fill a volume.
They have to understand averages, particularly average volumes
(Yana and Julian)
Math Skills:
What’s the total time (in days) your entire class has spent chewing gum over a lifetime?
(Hailey and Michelle K)
Math Skills:
How many party sized pizzas would it take to cover the outside of the homes on your street?
(Kathryn and Eddie)
Math Skills:
How many meters does a student travel within the school per year?
(Brad and Kay)
Math Skills
How many skateboards do you need to cover a skyscraper?
(Chris & Girthiga)
Math Skills
How many kilometers does the entire student population of your school walk in one year during school hours? (Doina & Vick)
Math Skills
How many trees need to be cut down to provide paper for an entire school year? (Christe & Nathan)
Math Skills
How many cell phones would you need to put end to end to make a ‘ring’ around the world? Are there enough cell phones in the world to accomplish this task? (Mala Singh and Lisa Kosh)
Math Skills
How many balloons would it take to fill a swimming pool?
(Greg Leverton and Liz Wunderlich)
Math Skills